Secretary Kayleigh Terry thought she was pregnant but was left âin another worldâ after being told her baby bump was a melon-sized tumour.

All-clear: Miss Terry had a melon-sized tumour, seen in the scan (Picture: Cavendish)

Kayleigh Terry was convinced she was expecting her first child when she began to put on weight around her stomach and suffer fatigue.

But after a negative pregnancy test, the 21-year-old was shocked when a scan revealed a tumour growing from her breast to her lower abdomen.

âI thought I was going to be a mother and never thought for one moment I had a tumour growing inside me,â Miss Terry explained.

âIt looked like a baby bump. I couldnât believe it when I found out what it was.âMiss Terry suffered stomach pains so excruciating that she resorted to taking hot baths in the early hours to relieve the discomfort.

Despite doctors initially believing it was linked to her bowels, she was diagnosed with a rare bone cancer, Ewingâs Sarcoma, days after celebrating her 19th birthday at a barbecue.

âI should have been eating cake but I could hardly manage a sausage, yet my stomach was massive. It didnât make sense,â she recalled.

âThe specialist diagnosed me and said I wouldnât be going home. I was in another world and not really with it.â

Miss Terry had emergency chemotherapy to shrink the tumour at Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology in Wirral, Merseyside, before it was removed a few months later.

After two years of treatment, Miss Terry, of Warrington, Cheshire, was given the all-clear last month and hopes to start a family.

âIâm so relieved to be alive and, hopefully, I will have children in the future,â she said. âIâm so excited and canât wait to see what 2012 brings.â